Marshland Fierce Beast

Being marked by a Venomous Snake was no good thing.

Early morning.

"Roar... roar roar..."

Beast Roars came from the marsh, sending birds and animals fleeing in fright. Bai Yujun, asleep in a tree, was startled and nearly fell. She raised her head groggily and wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth.

"Could that guy really have gotten poisoned from eating yesterday's leftovers?"

Roars rang continuously from the miasma-shrouded marsh. They sounded furious, but even more so like agonized screams.

Bai Yujun began considering in advance how she would eat it.

Crocodile hide armor was too tough and would easily cause indigestion if eaten. Swallowing it whole was too dangerous and not very nutritious either. She could, however, consider eating the crocodile's heart. That thing ought to be quite nourishing.

Now was not the time to go in and fight. The poison had only just entered its body and had yet to spread deep into its Bone Marrow; the crocodile still had some fighting strength for the time being.

She would wait half a day or so for the venom to take effect, then go kill it. For now, it was better to watch. A Fierce Beast driven mad was the most terrifying kind. As the saying went, the brazen feared the desperate; a crazed crocodile was precisely the desperate sort. The Spiritual Intelligence born from that brain, not much bigger than a walnut, could easily go mad.

She stretched lazily, her graceful curves laid bare in full view.

Putting away her paper umbrella and plate, she pulled a flute from her Book Box. The small Book Box was practically a Treasure Chest—an excellent, cost-effective travel essential.

Below the tree, a Wild Rabbit kept pricking up its ears. Once it realized the roaring was far away, it lowered its head and continued eating grass.

Its three-parted mouth chewed as it ate the blades of grass bit by bit.

Suddenly, a burst of piercing noise startled the Wild Rabbit. The sound was no different from Demonic Sound, unbearably awful. Even a rabbit would bite when enraged; stimulated by the noise, the Wild Rabbit wanted to find the bastard making it and duel him!

Agonized Beast Roars and dreadful flute notes formed an exceptionally bizarre symphony in this remote mountain forest.

At last, the piercing noise stopped, followed by a crack.

Half a flute bounced twice off the tree trunk and fell toward the furious Wild Rabbit. With a thump, it struck the rabbit on the head and bounced aside. The rabbit, which had been brimming with ferocity just moments before, leapt three feet into the air and shot into a burrow, vanishing without a trace.

Up in the tree, Bai Yujun sighed.

Gritting her teeth, she encouraged herself. As the saying went, where there's a will, there's a way! Nothing could stump a snake! Her earlier dejection was swept away, and she dug out another flute and resumed playing. The symphony began once more...

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was noon.

The roars grew weaker and weaker, changing from furious bellows into painful groans. Bai Yujun was immensely pleased with herself. Back then, she had injected a quarter of her stored venom into that half chunk of beast meat. She had not expected the crocodile to truly fall for it. There was probably an ulcer in its mouth or stomach; perhaps the animal Bone Structure had scratched the crocodile's mouth.

As for waiting for the crocodile to die from the poison—that was impossible. Crocodiles possessed a certain resistance to venom.

What Bai Yujun was doing was using snake venom to weaken the crocodile's combat strength, then fight it to the death. As a giant snake twelve meters long, she had more than enough ability to hunt a crocodile. She had only one killing move: constriction.

Bai Yujun had absolute confidence in hunting the crocodile.

Under normal circumstances, for a giant snake to kill a crocodile easily, its body had to be at least twice the crocodile's length. If it was shorter than the crocodile, it would be better to run as soon as possible.

The crocodile was around seven meters long, while Bai Yujun's body stretched twelve meters. Even though she was less than twice its length, she had absolute confidence in dealing with a poisoned crocodile.

Since her length had not reached double its size, it would normally be a long, drawn-out battle with no clear victor.

As for the idea that members of the Demon Race could not harm one another, that was even more absurd. The two usually minded their own business, but if they fought over territory and got enraged, they would fight for their lives. Do not expect two cold-blooded creatures of different species to live together peacefully.

"It's time."

She leapt forward, transformed into a giant snake, and swam toward the marsh...

Her oval snake head skimmed along the marsh's surface, swaying left and right as she advanced in an S-shape. She easily crossed both grassy meadows and pools of water. A human cultivator of insufficient cultivation would not dare enter the marsh to Deal With a crocodile at all; only Bai Yujun was suited for it.

The poisoned crocodile struggled ceaselessly in the mud, and Bai Yujun firmly Locked Onto its location through the vibrations.

At this moment, Bai Yujun was not human. She was a cold-blooded giant snake with her Fierce Nature fully unleashed.

Passing through the miasma, she immediately spotted the crocodile struggling and rolling in the muck. It was half-man, half-crocodile—a Strong Man covered in black hide armor. She directly accelerated and Charged towards it. The crocodile, wracked by pain, also saw the White Snake. With a shake of its body, it returned to its original form, opened its great mouth filled with sharp teeth, and Charged towards Bai Yujun. The two savage, cold-blooded Fierce Beasts launched into a life-and-death battle the instant they met!

Seen from the sky, one gray and one white rapidly closed in...

Just before the collision, the White Snake suddenly coiled her body and rolled aside, evading the crocodile's great jaws! Given the crocodile's tough hide, she did not attack with her venomous fangs. She merely used her agility to enrage the crocodile and wear down its strength.

"Roar!"

The crocodile flew into a rage. Its violent movements sent mud flying as it ran on all four claws and Charged towards the White Snake.

This Crocodile Demon's fighting strength was not far from that of Bai Yujun, who had passed the Form Transformation Tribulation. Its great jaws could unleash tremendous roars; it simply had no one to teach it and thus could not completely transform into human form. Somehow, it had learned that devouring human children, the spirits of all creation, could increase its cultivation—perhaps it had discovered this by occasionally eating people, or perhaps it had learned it by some other means. None of that mattered anymore. Bai Yujun was going to kill it and devour its heart!

She rolled aside again to evade it, but unexpectedly, after the crocodile's body passed by, it suddenly whipped its tail!

Bang~!

The tail struck the White Snake. Such an attack could not injure her; the pain instead spurred Bai Yujun on.

"Hiss!"

Before the crocodile could turn around, Bai Yujun burst forth with speed and instantly arrived above it. With her snake head pointing downward, she swiftly passed beneath its jaw as it Lifted its head, then unleashed constriction!

The crocodile panicked. It knew perfectly well how terrifying a giant snake's constriction was. Once trapped, death was certain.

In its desperation, it continuously rolled through the marsh's muddy filth, trying to throw off the giant snake wrapped around it. What it did not realize was that this rolling gave the White Snake the perfect opportunity to coil around it. The crocodile normally rolled to tear flesh from drowned prey, yet it had never imagined this would hasten its own defeat.

One coil...

Two coils...

Five coils...

After coiling around it, Bai Yujun frantically tightened and squeezed. The victor had essentially already been decided. As time passed, the crocodile would die—especially with its enormous belly constricted, its internal organs suffering severe compression. Internal injuries were far more terrifying than external wounds.

It was a common sight. In Earth's Amazon rainforest, it was nothing unusual for giant pythons to kill crocodiles.

In the swamp's rotten mud, the crocodile's struggles grew weaker and weaker. Only its tail could still occasionally sweep twice. Its huge jaws were bound shut, unable to open. Two low-ranking spirit creatures fought to the death in this place unknown to anyone.

After tightening her coils, Bai Yujun remained motionless and waited quietly for the crocodile to die.

Maybe one day, maybe two—perhaps it would take three days. The crocodile had eaten so many young boys and girls that its blood and vitality were exceptionally vigorous. If she had not tricked it earlier, today might have become another bloody battle. To kill a crocodile with such abundant blood and vitality required enough patience to wait.

A whimper came from the crocodile's mouth. It had not refined its Hyoid Bone and could not speak, but Bai Yujun could tell that it was begging for mercy.

She could not be bothered with nonsense. Even if this fool survived today, it would only be a matter of time before someone killed it. From the moment it had eaten so many children, it had been doomed to meet no good end—doomed to have a high-ranking disciple of Pure Yang come and eradicate evil.